January 2007
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Entertainment Law & Finance
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Estate planning is central to the post-mortem distribution and protection of an individual’s assets. Celebrities have special estate-planning concerns that include intellectual-property valuations, how the valuations affect estate taxes and post-mortem administration of intellectual property.
In the following interview, conducted in Nashville by Entertainment Law & Finance Editor-in-Chief Stan Soocher, entertainment attorney Robert L. Sullivan discusses these and related estate-planning issues that affect artists.
Robert L. Sullivan is a partner in the Nashville office of Loeb & Loeb LLP where his clients include songwriters, music-publishing companies, record companies and recording artists. He has 30-years of experience as an entertainment lawyer and serves as a trustee for the estate of Johnny Cash. He can reached at . This article first appeared in Volume 22, No. 10 of the January 2007 edition of the Law Journal Newsletter - Entertainment Law & Finance. Copyright 2007 ALM Properties, Inc. Permission to use this reprint has been granted by the publisher.